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Avoid, mitigate and restore land under pressure to combat desertification and increase resilience to climate change in the montado agroforestry and extensive pasture systems, dominated by cork and/or holm oaks at Herdade da Coitadinha, Barrancos. i) establishing a Land Degradation Baseline (that incorporates natural temporal fluctuations and spatial heterogeneity) and developing a monitoring toolbox to evaluate productivity trends of montado at regional scale, against which performance can be assessed in the future to support LDN policy;
ii) restoring degraded areas under disturbance (e.g. overgrazing) and climate (semi-arid) pressure, to promote montado’s productivity and the delivery of ecosystem services (ES), by managing livestock intensity in areas with different potential for natural regeneration and initial oak’s density;
iii) assessing the delivery of regulating, provisioning and cultural ES in restoration areas and in response to drought (through an undergoing drought simulation experiment), including ES provided by soil in climate regulation, erosion control and C fixation;
iv) Co-building and disseminating the best solutions to restore ES at local and regional scales, involving montado stakeholders from various sectors and scales in order to guarantee a solution that integrates different perspectives and an effective implementation of the measures. 90,0 acres with reduced susceptibility to desertification